Anatomy of a Nightmare Wedding – but the cake was good!

The following is an email my friend, Jennifer from Bradley Bunch Bakery sent me. The back story is this: Bride and “Pam” brought paint chips to the consult for the cake. The bride had a very specific color purple in mind, and wanted to make sure it was exact. The details, it seems, matter a great deal to this bride.

This reminded me of one of my lovely brides. She had a detailed spreadsheet that was down to the minute – literally. 6:01 walk to door, 6:02 walk down aisle, 6:03 begin music…etc. I looked at her, and said “now ya know this makes me laugh, right?” She said she knew, but it made her feel better to do it. Of course, she was 45 minutes behind schedule herself, but it all just goes to show you – it’s your wedding day. You have not a single soul on the planet to please but yourself, but alas…even the best laid plans can go kablooey.

Wow what a wedding we had!

The OMG moments:
FedEx lost bridesmaid dresses in Toronto somewhere-they’re still not found, groom’s 14 yr old daughter flying alone delayed in Arizona and misses flight, strong storms during outdoor rehearsal Friday night and power outages, groom loses marriage license that they all need to sign necessitating me running to bride’s hotel room and searching followed by going back to my house to look through groom’s stuff and found it and run back to wedding to find that…ta da..the wedding still hasn’t started because the minister was in a car crash and is getting sitches in his head and being bandaged up, followed by limo driver leaving because the wedding has now been delayed by 3hrs and he has another wedding to be at…

The good stuff:
New bridesmaid dresses were bought from David’s bridal, groom’s daughter was put on a plane next day and made it here, storms caused us to quit rehearsal and go eat dinner which was really a good idea at that point, I found marriage license and didn’t miss the ceremony, minister was ok and really wanted to fulfill his obligation to do the ceremony so stopped off at a store and bought nonbloody suitjacket and shirt (but Doylestown Mayor was nearby at 200th year celebration and volunteered to marry them if minister couldn’t), bride was able to wait for wedding to start from inside the FontHill museum (instead of the limo) and got a private tour of the place by the curator..
The kids weren’t whiny, we all worked together and no one’s temper got hot, the cake was safe in air conditioning, the brides train that got stuck on a tent pin was easily fixable because I brought my sewing kit in the trunk for just such an occasion.
And the best part, they got married. None of the other stuff really mattered.

So now that we’ve all enjoyed your wonderful cake, how should I properly freezer-safe wrap the top layer for their 1 yr anniversary? What’s the best method? In saran then wax paper then foil then repeat? In Tupperware?

Thanks,
Pam

Jenn’s response for preserving the cake? Taken right from theknot.com 🙂
How To Preserve Your Top Wedding Cake Tier

Beach Wedding Cake from Bradley Bunch Bakery